An edition of Conics (1655)

Treatise on conic sections.

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Treatise on conic sections.

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University press
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English, Ancient Greek
Pages
254

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great_books_of_the_western_world, Early works to 1800, Conic sections, Greek Mathematics, Geometry - General, Mathematics

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Cover of: Treatise on conic sections.
Treatise on conic sections.
1896, University press
in English and Ancient Greek
Cover of: Treatise on conic sections.
Treatise on conic sections.
1896, Cambridge University Press
in English
Cover of: Apollonii Conica
Apollonii Conica: methodo nova illustrata, & succinctè demonstrata
1675, Excudebat Guil. Godbid, voeneunt apud Robertus Scott, in vico Little-Britain
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Table of Contents

Introduction: pt. I. The earlier history of conic sections among the Greeks. 1. The discovery of conic sections; Menaechmus. 2. Aristaeus and Euclid. 3. Archimedes. pt. II. Introduction to the conics of Apollonius. 1. The author and his own account of the conics. 2. General characteristics. 3. The methods of Apollonius. 4. The construction of a conic by means of tangents. 5. The three-line and four-line locus. 6. The construction of a conic through five points.-Appendix: Notes on the terminology of Greek geometry.
The conics of Apollonius.

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QA31 .A5 1896

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clxx p., 1 l., 254 p.
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254

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